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...Koreans. The aftermath of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe couldn't have been more different. Eager to revitalize a city that was struggling economically even before the massive tremor, the city government began courting Chinese investment. Today, on Kobe's refurbished Port Island, delegations of Chinese businessmen tour a vast technology park where city officials are offering tax breaks in the hopes of creating a new high-tech Chinatown. Chen's company headquarters are already here, as are dozens of other Chinese firms specializing in everything from scrap metal to biotech...
...have established huge SWFs, such as China and Russia, are not necessarily "friendlies, as far as the West is concerned," as one U.S. Congressional staffer puts it. Even U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox, an avowed free trader, has acknowledged that government investment funds could use "the vast amounts of covert information" that their spy agencies collect, making that "the ultimate inside-trading tool...
...astounding, science is ultimately unable to address the nature of morality with any degree of certainty. For scientists to pin our hope on the possibility that "the struggles still to come are fewer than those left behind" is merely blowing in the wind. Better that scientists explore the vast realm of unanswered questions while staying within scientific parameters. Although they accurately describe the mysterious condition of the "planet's most noble creatures," they have not moved one iota beyond the ancient biblical description of beings made in the image of God. Al Hoksbergen, Spring Lake, Michigan...
...ended the article with the hope that "the struggles still to come are fewer than those left behind." I believe that the vast majority of people realistically fear that mankind has a tremendous amount of killing and savagery ahead of us before we truly civilize ourselves. But let's hope you are correct...
...approving a warrantless-wiretapping program after Sept. 11. Only after the program was revealed to the public in December 2005 was the Administration forced to comply with the law. Now the Administration is asking for broad new powers that could very well lead to the collection of vast numbers of communications involving U.S. citizens at home. Congress must make sure that the new law requires independent court review and that it protects the privacy of innocent Americans, as required by the Constitution. That's not tone-deaf; that's our sworn and solemn duty...